# Order getting elements from source in query **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 25, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-getting-elements-from-source-in-query/182777 "2019-05-25T22:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jbalaguero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jbalaguero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbalaguero)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-getting-elements-from-source-in-query/182777/1 "2019-05-25T22:34:51Z")
I'm executing a query with ".../\_search?\_source=cacheId,expirationTime" and also trying "/\_search?\_source=expirationTime,cacheId", and the response is always: ( ... ) "\_source": {"expirationTime":1558724355237,"cacheId":"96|0hghj56776|13259|"} ( ... ) So, what's the order of the elements within the \_source in the response? Because it seems it's not the order requested in the query. It's important for us because we are directly "parsing" the response as string. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-getting-elements-from-source-in-query/182777/2 "2019-05-25T23:49:55Z")
You can't have it ordered. You need to read it as a json and not as a string and then do whatever ordering, transformation on your side. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/order-getting-elements-from-source-in-query/182777/3 "2019-06-22T23:55:31Z")
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